Yesterday I posted about media coverage, and possible exaggeration of, the problems at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. As a follow-up, over at Japan Probe I found a clip of Charlie Brooker discussing sensationalist of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor. His takeaway message: If you can’t distinguish your news teasers from a video game ad, you may have a problem:
Also, Fox News seems to have somehow mistaken a club in Tokyo for a nuclear reactor:
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puppy — March 26, 2011
I'm an American living in Japan. This kind of coverage is scaring our families. Even though I live in Osaka, hundreds of miles away from the damage, I and some of my friends have been asked to come home by relatives convinced by the likes of CNN and Fox News that the whole country is about to glow green and sink underwater. Sure, these are scary times, and of course people over here are panicking a bit too, but could you, you know, dial down the doomsday alarm please, guys?
Markus — March 26, 2011
In Germany the popular news-show "heute journal" also took pictures of Japan and mixed it with Massive Attack to create a "music-video". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wqv6S26sCM
kinelfire — March 27, 2011
Apparently, Channel 4 have blocked these videos. In the UK.
Chris — March 30, 2011
I can't recommend Charlie Brooker's work enough. Episodes of Screenwipe, Newswipe and How TV Ruined Your Life are all available on youtube.